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Available Content

Content in all formats from libraries and publishers around the world

Your users don't want to spend time searching multiple interfaces for the answers they need. They want you to connect them to the most appropriate materials, regardless of the source or medium. WorldCat Local searches a universe of more than 1.8 billion resources across print, digital and electronic formats. In a world where instant answers are available online from a variety of sources, your library can distinguish itself by providing deep, rich, relevant and locally unique services. WorldCat Local helps you make that happen.

WorldCat Local gives your users the ability to search more than 1.8 billion items in a wide variety of formats:

eBooks: More than 16 million titles from current partners (including NetLibrary, ebrary and myiLibrary), as well as records from publishers, those contributed directly by member libraries, and records for public domain eBooks from sources such as the Google Books Project.

Special collections: Unique collections from leading institutional repositories and archives such as OAIster and ArchiveGrid connect users to rare and scholarly materials.

Open Access content:8+ million records of open-access full text content from repositories that include HathiTrust, Google Books, OAIster, JSTOR Early Content Online, NDLTD: the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.

What's inside WorldCat Local

WorldCat Local includes access to a wide variety of electronic, licensed, physical and locally digitized materials. Evaluative content and links to over 2 billion library holdings help add even more value to the discovery process.

Databases/collections2,109

ISSNs represented by article content99,867

Articles1.4+ billion

Digital content items42 million

eBooks16 million

Institutional repository records32 million

Theses and dissertations20 million

Sound recordings16 million

Visual materials13 million

Archival materials36 million

Serials12 million

Conference proceedings14 million

Musical scores7 million

Maps (including atlases & gazetteers)4 million

Books306 million

Evaluative content41 million

As of 23 January 2015. Most up-to-date content statistics available here.

Submit your requests

We want to hear what other materials you would like to access through WorldCat Local. Please send suggestions to publishing@oclc.org. Publishers interested in increasing the visibility of their content should contact OCLC Publisher Relations at publishing@oclc.org.